Demerara Definition

demerara
noun
  1. a light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana
  2. a river in northern Guyana that flows northward into the Atlantic
  3. a former Dutch colony in South America; now a part of Guyana
  4. dark rum from Guyana
  5. light brown cane sugar; originally from Guyana

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